https://www.reddit.com/r/project1999...f_p99/drxq0e7/
Inglorious basterds led the scene right out the gate. Eventually another guild dark ascension was nipping at their heels but couldnt quite cut it. TMO used to be a guild that was barely raiding sky and then merged in with "dark ascension" and for some reason kept the tmo tag. (Dark ascension sounds way better imo) so they could fully compete with IG. which they merged with ???? They changed their name several times, one of them was furys edge? I think. Eventually they switched back to IB over some trickery. But maybe after a year of IB dominating kunark, tmo took over and dominated for the following 4 years? Completely cock blocking other guilds like bregan D'aerth, taken, divinity etc. Usually if tmo was out the way and there was a clear shot at a big target, IB would randomly Reappear and snipe the mob right out from us/them. Reminding us all that they were still very much in control. Lol. Bda ended up merging with VD which gave them hella numbers. Went from 20-30 max per raid up to 60-80 and started fighting back abit. But bda leadership wasnt about using any sort of dirty tactics to fight their competition so bda split in 2, and forceful entry was born. They competed against tmo the best they could but dont think they had much more success than bda did. If anything, instead of beating tmo to targets, they ended up screwing bda out of the scraps. Eventually I think they merged in with IB. Times were rough and dark. This went on for years. The year before velious release other smaller guilds started picking up steam as tmo was dying out. Taken, csg, divinity etc. All started getting stuff. at that point VP was more bda, taken, csg than IB or Tmo. But IB had some shit stirring, did some merging, new leaders, officers etc and formed Rampage right before velious. On release they were on a whole 'nother level. Luckily they were deadset on ntov, sleepers, statue/aow/kt etc. That all the upcoming under guilds were finally getting shit. After all the dark days of kunark, everyone was getting loot. I dont remember what tmos name was at the time but I do remember them struggling hard. They were so busy trying to compete with rampage that the rest of us cleaned up all the other targets and were loving Eq. Eventually tmo started getting their shit together and all the fun started to dwindle. After 7-8 months of total domination of velious rampage called it quits. But not before waking the sleeper and bouncing out in style. Afterwards taken merged with the remaining rampage to make awakening, tmo merged with asgard? And another guild? Cant remember. They struggled the first 6-8 months in velious but eventually got it fully together and birthed aftermath. Bda actually scored a handful of rampage bigwigs and for acouple months were trying to break into ntov stuff and did have alittle success but randomly the leader and 3/4ths the guild up and left the server all together. Which completely left the end game firmly in the hands of a/a. History repeating itself. Ib/tmo still dominates, just different names but strip it down and the same 2 guilds have run the end game since 2010. Nowadays csg cleans up the scraps and capitalizes big time everytime a/a gets banned as theyre fully capable of taking any target but other than that A/A still dominates. Is what it is. They deserve the best loot/targets as they put in twice the effort and yeah. Thats how ive viewed the end game within the server. I was in bda til death then part of csg before i quit and yet never had 1 issue with any particular tmo/ib member throughout 7 years. Kunark times were frustrating but that's what made it fun. Always being apart of underdog guilds made it so satisfying to finally get to kill some big targets, instead of a daily/weekly thing.